About the CGJ

Focus and Scope

The Canadian Geriatrics Journal (CGJ) is a peer-reviewed and open access publication that is a home for innovative aging research of a high quality aimed at improving the health and the care provided to older persons residing in Canada and outside our borders. While we gratefully accept submissions from researchers outside our country, we are committed to encouraging aging research by Canadians. The CGJ is targeted to family physicians with training or an interest in the care of older persons, specialists in geriatric medicine, geriatric psychiatrists, and members of other health disciplines with a focus on gerontology.

The CGJ publishes papers dealing with aging and the clinical care of older persons and welcomes original research, short reports, reviews (narrative reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses), guidelines, perspectives, editorials, commentaries, letters to the editor, and reflective pieces (book reviews and humanities). View our Author Guidelines for more information.

Publisher

Canadian Geriatrics Society
20 Crown Steel Drive, Unit 6
Markham, Ontario, L3R 9X9
Canada
Email: cgs@secretariatcentral.com

Peer Review Policy

All manuscripts are initially reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief to assess whether the manuscript fits the journal’s scope and meets basic publication standards. Manuscripts that meet these initial criteria are assigned to an Associate Editor for full handling, if appropriate. If the paper is judged to be suitable for possible publication, it will be sent to two or more external reviewers using our database of experts. All articles undergo this process with the following exceptions, which do not undergo our standard peer review process:

  • Letters to the Editor, Commentaries, Editorials, Guest Editorials, and Book Reviews, which are based on the decision of the Editor, who may ask experts on the merit of their contents.
  • Manuscripts authored by the Editor-in-Chief (excluding Editorials) – The peer review process is overseen by an Associate Editor or another Editorial Board Member who has no conflict of interest with the author(s).
  • Manuscripts authored by Associate Editor(s) – The peer review process is managed by the Editor-in-Chief, provided there is no conflict of interest.

The final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of an article is made by the Associate Editor if one is assigned, with the Editor-in-Chief overseeing the process and ultimately responsible for all editorial decisions to ensure fairness, integrity, and adherence to journal standards.

CGJ employs a single-anonymized review process. The identities of the reviewers are kept confidential, but the identity of the author(s) is made known to the reviewers. The manuscript under review is not revealed to anyone other than the reviewers and editorial staff. Reviewers are required to maintain confidentiality about the manuscripts they review. For detailed guidance on reviewing, please refer to our Reviewer Guidelines.

Authors should expect to receive an initial decision on their manuscript within 12–16 weeks of submission. If revision of the manuscript is required, the authors must submit within three weeks of the request. If accepted for publication, articles will be published with 6-9 months of acceptance.

Refer to the Journal’s peer review process in the Author Guidelines for more information.

Publication Frequency

The CGJ is an open-access publication available online and is published four times per year in March, June, September, and December.

Copyright of any article published in the CGJ is retained by the author(s). Authors grant the Canadian Geriatrics Society (Publisher) a License to Publish their final article in the Journal and exclusive rights upon acceptance. Articles published in the Journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0). This license allows others to download original works and share them with others providing they credit the author and the publication, but users cannot change them in any way or use the materials commercially.

Open Access Policy

All articles published in the CGJ are open access and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use and distribution, provided the original work is properly cited. CGJ readers are entitled to use, reproduce, distribute, or display these articles provided that:

  • the original authorship is properly and fully attributed;
  • the journal and publisher (Canadian Geriatrics Society) are attributed as the original place of publication with the correct citation details provided;
  • no articles are reproduced for commercial use without the prior consent of the Canadian Geriatrics Society and payment of the appropriate fee.

Definition of Commercial Use

The use of material from the CGJ that is for the commercial gain of the user and/or their employing institution. This includes:

  • re-use by a non-author, third party or other publishers of an article or parts of an article in another publication (journal or book) to be sold for commercial purposes.
  • the distribution of multiple prints or electronic copies of an article(s) from the journal to a third party for marketing purposes.
  • re-use by an author of parts of or all of an article in other publications from commercial organizations. Permission for this kind of reuse must be obtained from the publisher.

For permission to make any kind of commercial use of material from CGJ, written permission must be granted by the Canadian Geriatrics Society, who retains the right to levy an appropriate fee. See Permissions & Licensing.

Permissions & Licensing

To seek permission for the commercial use of material published in CGJ, please contact:

Canadian Geriatrics Society
20 Crown Steel Drive, Unit 6
Markham, Ontario, L3R 9X9
Canada
Email: cgs@secretariatcentral.com

The publisher, the Canadian Geriatrics Society, retains the right to levy an appropriate fee.

Indexing

CGJ is covered by the following major indexes, aggregators, and services:

  • PubMed
  • PubMed Central (PMC)
  • Web of Science, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • EBSCO
  • Scopus
  • ProQuest
  • Crossref
  • Google Scholar
  • Cabells Database

Archiving

All articles published in the CGJ are sent immediately upon online publication, without further intervention from the author, to PubMed Central (PMC), the National Library of Medicine’s full-text article archive. Manuscripts deposited to PMC are freely available to the public, via the Internet, upon publication in the journal.

For authors, please see the Journal’s “Self Archiving Policy”.

Ownership and Management of the Journal

The Journal is owned by the Canadian Geriatrics Society, which provides strategic direction and ensures financial sustainability. The editorial board, led by the Editor-in-Chief, independently manages the journal’s content, peer review process, and publication standards. While the society supports the journal’s overall mission, editorial decisions remain independent to uphold academic integrity and scholarly excellence.

Business Model and Revenue Sources

CGJ’s primary financial support comes from author fees, which help support the costs of peer review, editorial management, production, and online hosting. These fees enable the Journal to maintain a sustainable open-access publishing model while ensuring broad accessibility of its scholarly content.

To sustain its publishing activities, the Journal receives additional financial support from the Canadian Geriatrics Society, which helps cover operational and strategic development costs, subsidize expenses, and maintain affordability for authors. This partnership reflects the Society’s commitment to advancing high-quality research dissemination in the field.

CGJ does not accept commercial advertising in any form. All financial support and revenue-generating activities are managed transparently and in accordance with the Journal’s mission and values. The Journal upholds strict editorial independence, ensuring that funding sources have no influence on editorial decisions, review processes, or publication outcomes.

Disclaimer

The Canadian Geriatrics Society (the Publisher), the Canadian Geriatrics Society Scholarship Foundation, the editorial team, and Multimed Inc. shall not be liable for any of the views expressed by the authors published in the Canadian Geriatrics Journal, nor shall these opinions necessarily reflect those of the publisher. All articles published represent the views of the authors and do not reflect the policy of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal, the Canadian Geriatrics Society Scholarship Foundation, the Canadian Geriatrics Society, or Multimed Inc. The publisher, editors, and authors do not assume liability for any injury and/or damage to persons or property arising from this publication.